ErasR t PnhIIQfP THE PAGE FOUR BOOK ON JESUS BY GEORG BRANDES STIRS HISTORIANS B'NAI B'RITH SPONSORS FIRST INN OF WEEKLY DANCES SEPT. 181 B'NOS ZION CHECK FOR $3,500 ACKNOWLEDGED The following communication was received by Mrs. Moses Kaufman, secretary of the B'nos Zion Organiz- ation, from Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, chairman of the hospital building fund for Palestine, in acknowledg- ment of a check for $3,500 which the Detroit organization recently sent to Palestine: Y. M. H. A. DANCE IS SET FOR SEPTEMBER 26 Central Figure of Christianity Is Myth Like Appolo, Her- cules, Says Critic. DATA CONFUSED BY NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS "My Dear Mrs. Kaufman: Your check for $3,500, made out to Henrietta SzoId, has just been re- ceived at this office. "You certainly set an example of what B'nos Zionists should do all over the country, and if they would follow your example how quickly Palestine would be built up and how quickly there would be an end to Jewish suf- fering. "A tablet will be placed over beds in the maternity ward of one of the hospitals in Palestine to perpetuate the work of the B'nos Zion of De- troit. "On behalf of the committee, per- mit me to wish you and every mem- ber of your organization a Happy New Year and many Ilapy New Years so you may not only be useful to yourselves and families in the com- munity, but to all the Jewish people who need you. "Sincerely yours, B'nai B'rith Community Center, 275 East Ferry avenue, on Oct. 5. Many who recently returned from Pales- tine and Europe will address the Rummage Sale: gathering. The public is requested Mrs, S. Goldstick is in charge of the rummage sale, to be held very to attend. soon, and is being assisted by Mrs. A. E. Goldsmith. All those who have His thoughts are over the moun- material of any kind that they think tains, but death is over his shoulder. might be usable in the sale are re- quested to cull Garfield 7685 and the A brab is not a fish among fishes, packages will be called for. a bat is not a bird among birds, a hen-pecked husband is not a man Mass Meeting: A mass meeting will be held at the among men. luncheon is being planned, details of which will be announced later. Sermon On Mount is But Of- ficial Proclamation of Jewish High Priest. YORK.—The contention for- warded years ago by Professor Ar- thur Dress's, a non-Jewish scholar, that Jesus of Nazareth never lived and that the central figure of Chris- tianity is a myth is reiterated by Georg Branches, the world famous Danish Jewish author and critic, in a new Book, "Jesus, a Myth," of WALTER LICHTENFELD which a translation is published this I week by Albert and, Charles Boni.' Vi'alter Lichtenfeld, treasurer of The publication of thiii book last year! the Detroit Young Men's Hebrew As- in the Danish original and its trans-' , . is in charge of the ticket WHITE'S BLUE GRASS SYNCOPATORS lation into German roused a storm , committee for the "Y" Succoth dance througoh out White's Blue Grass Syncopators vitation was extended them to play ° t h. :h will b. held at the Hotel Stet Professor Draws, who is professor ter on Sunday evening, Sept. 26. at the weekly Saturday night dances • and Sylvia Sunny flair, Ferndale' of philosophy in the Technological at the community house. Sylvia radio station artists, together with Sunny Gair is well known to Detroit- College at Carlsruhe, Germany, wrote "NATHAN RATNOFF, the Kroll sisters, will furnish the en- ers, having sung over the radio and two books on the subject, "The Christ Myth," and the "Witnesses to Chairman. tertainment for the first Saturday at various local dances. The Kroll the Historicity of Jesus." night dance given by Pisgah Lodge, sisters, I.ottie and Dorothy, have IIENRIETTA SZOLD, Meeting: Brunches is now in his eighty-fifth No. 34, Independent Order B'nai sung and performed at various A board of directors meeting of Vice-Chairman. year. He lectured in New York in B'rith and associated Jewish•orgarnz- dances in and around Detroit. 1914 and attracted great attention. the main branch of the Jewish Wom- S. C. LAMPORT, In addition to the entertainment, ationa at 276 East Ferry avenue on ion sirganfizi at L Welfare O Treasurer. I Sept. 16 at 8:30 o'clock. Mr. Gladwin promises refreshments In the long span of his life he ha: en's ' European held at the home ors. and souvenirs to all who attend. A I exercised on influence on nearly all- C success DR. ISRAEL WECHSLER, Calvert avenue, at which time Blue Grass Syncopators attracted the nominal admission charge will be I European literature. He has been the Secretary." t he annual ball to be held at the the center of many important liter- attention of Mr. dladwin and an in- made. ary controversies and has been as Book-Cadillas Hotel on Nov. 21 was A meeting of the B'nos Zion will outspokt•n about his religious as his I planned, and the following commit• be held at the residence of Mrs. Moe STUDENTS MAKE RABBI o f , tees chosen to take charge: Mrs. Ida literary opinions. Speaking Ehrlich, 2200 Longfellow avenue, on SHOUT "LONG LIVE CUZA" Thomas Paine, he fine, said: "He Levine, chairman; Mrs. Joseph luck- Monday afternoon, Sept. 27. erman and Mrs. Agnes Levine, as- I." was a heretic; on am Dance: — An BUCHAREST. — The thesis of his book is that Jesus sistant chairmen. Elaborate plans are being com- -- attack on a rabbi, a paseehger on a pleted by those in charge of the "Y" is as wholly fictitious and legendary , Roumanian train, is reported by the Succoth dance, which Will be held on a figure as Hercules, Prometheus or North Woodward Branch: The North Woodward Branch of Roumanian paper, Egalitatea. William Tell. Its arguments are based •evening, Sept. 26, at the Ho- Sunday Cantor of Congregation Emanuel. Rabbi Isaac Welech of Breaza was tel Statler. An orchestra of repute on what the author declares to be the J. W. E. W. 0. will hold its first Taylor and Wilson. a passenger on a train going from the season on Oct. 5 at 2 has been engaged to furnish the mu- hopeless inconsistencies, contradic• meeting of t the home of Mrs. Morris EXPERT AND ANTISEPTIC Dornnhelgie to Clausenburg. He was alt. n. In s , I int itesa flint sic for the evening and the social thinsh e at 2250 Gladstone avenue. MOHEL Fishman, surrounded by students, who hit him committee has arranged many sur- upont a 1:4 wi niTPeui+tsai In'ii Recommended by New York, CM- in the face with their fists and forced prises. Souvenirs will be given the alysis of histories and legends from 1 Mrs. Fishman recently returned from ago and Detroit physicians. other sources. Its chief contention Palestine and has considerable of in- him to shout "long live Coca." They guests. is that the figure and teachings of terest to tell the members: A bridge- also made him dance to the tune of MARRIAGES PERFORMED .._ "Ma Yophis." Jesus are drawn from materials Moved to 1699 TAYLOR Officials on the train refused to Meeting: Phone Empire 4322 On Sunday afternoon, Sept. 19, at scattered through the Ohl Testament . intervene to stop the outrage. together in poorly arranged I 5 o'clock, the first meeting in the and put newly decorated "Y" building will be and often inconsistent form. I Nevertheless, Brunches adds, Jesus held. All members are urged to at- will continue to he worshipped by tend, as mutters concerning the Suc- Christians for thousands of years, as coth dance will be discussed. he has been in the past, and as Isis and }torus were worshipped, for as The Safest and Best Paid Investment in the World. Activities: long or even longer periods, though On Oct. 1, the Y. M. II. A. of De- no one now believes that they actual- troit will begin its various activities, ly existed. such as classes, open meetings, Sun- "For thousands of years," the day afternoon dances. All Jewish critic writes, "Apollo, the god of young men are invited to attend light and purity, was adored in in- meetings and join any of the classes numerable temples. Ile had hosts of Beside. making • wonderful investment, you will always be proud in which they are interested. The priests and priestesses, and he guid- of doing the most noble deed in your life. How proud you will be Y. W. and Y. M. are planning on con- ed the destinies of nien through his when you can boast, "I personally helped in the upbuilding of solidating in order that both organiz- oracles. To this very day his name Palestine." ations may be strengthened. remains honored. But he never ex- Buy a parcel of land in the new City of Aful• (in the heart of the isted; no one believes it in this, the Emek ). For particulars and conditions call Athena Girls Dance: twentieth century. Following the Sunday meeting, "On the other hand, the fact that members of the "Y" will attend the he never existed detracts no more Athena Girls dance at the Hotel Tul- from his significance then from that les Roof Garden. if Achilles, Ulysses, Hamlet and auss. We know a great deal more When the ass bears a light load, bout Ophelia and Margaretta than Representative of the American Zion Commonwealth. he wants to lie down. we know about Mary and Martha in the New Testament. Yet real exist- ence con no more he ascribed to the latter than to the former. Divine figures can never be affected by hav- ing lived their true and only lives in the mind of men. J. W. E. W. O. Board THE OLDEST AND ONE OF THE STRONGEST BANKS IN MICHIGAN THE DETROIT SAVINGS BANK,--THAT IS A NAME WHICH HAS MEANT MUCHTO DETROIT BUSI- NESS AND PROFESS- IONAL MEN INTHE PAST, AND WHICH MEANS MORE THAN EVER, TO- DAY, IN REAL HELPFUL- NESS. Y. M. H. A. NOTES REV. H. MILKOVSKY INVEST IN PALESTINE! Ask the Herzlia Investors and They Will Tell You. M. MARGOLIS NAS I I *\ ServingYou Through 25 Branches Main Office: State at Grits old Christ Ideal Figure. \\ Leads the World in Motor Car Valie t Great Bearings he Smoothest Miles are NA6 1-1 Miles New NASH Attractions New instrument hoard with in- direct lighting and all illness- menu in single panel under glass. imluding hydrostatic gas gauge. New oilsereen"agitator"which presents oil roagul•tion in coldest weather. All new Nash models now leave the great superi- ority of a 7-beat ing crankshaft motor. It is an engineering fact that this is the ultra. modern motor—the words smoothest type. New crank-case breather" eliminating crank-case di- lution. Robb. r. insulated motor our. ports which deepen operant e quieines. (standard Nash The 7 great bearings give the revolving crank. shaft abwlute rigidity and stiffness, thus achks , ing the final .degrec of power-smoothness and quietness. 10111r And an arras: I f further superb new features. "The Christ figure as an ideal of spiritual superiority, of lover for hu- i manity, of charity and purity, was many centuries older than the noble- minded Galilian man of the people who, 1,900 years ago, was said to have given historic embodiment to this prototype," Branches says. "The I some figure will survive him for cen- : turies to come, even if he, as now seems likely, should never have 1..• i Branches attacks the historic re- liability of the Gospel writers, say- ing: "It may he noted in general that they had no interest in historic facts. The fact that their topography is as poor as their chronology shows that the eva ngelists possessed no real ' knowledge of local conditions." He calls the story of the 12 epos- : tles "a palpable piece of mythology" and declares the figure of Judas to be purely legendary, as superfluous , to the general story of Jesus as "the , fifth wheel in a cart," and "an ab- surdity explicable only as a mani- I festation of the hatred felt by Gentile I Christianity against the Jewish Chris- The I flans in the second century. !legend has caused great mischief. 1 That it ever gained credence does not speak well for man's acumen. 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